Improved washing-machine



RUSSELL' S. MORSE, oF winrron, MAINE.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 103,357, dated May 24,1870.

To all persons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, RUSSELL S. MORSE, of

tion, and represented in the vaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a transverse section of a washing -machine Vprovided With myinvention. Fig. 2 isa top view of the tub, showing the spindle and theappliancesl xed to the bottom of such tub. Fig. 3 is a top view, andFig. 4 a bottom view, ofthe reciprocating or rotary dasher. y

The washing-machine hereinafter described is similar in its generalcharacter to that explained in the United States Patent No. 49,920,granted September 12, 1865, to L. E. Ransom. y

The dasher Ahas a series of tangential rubbers, a, applied to the lowerface of its perforated disk b, and turns on an upright spindle, B. Thesaid spindle, instead of being fixed to a perforated disk having rubbersor `arms on its upper face, is simply fastened at its lower 'end to fourradial arms, U, which extend from it at right angles to it and eachother, and rest on the bottom d of the tub D, and are to be fixedthereto by means of' screws e e going down through each of such arms andinto the bottom. Between the said arms and fixed to the bottom is aseries of cleats or rubbers, ffff, each of which is formed with a longpassage, g, leading through it and over the bottom of the tub, in manneras shown in Fig. 5. Furthermore, each of the arms G has two or more ofsuch passages made through it, as shown at h in Fig. l. The purpose ofthese passages through the cleats and arms is not only to facilitate theflowage of the water, but to prevent dirt or extraneousv matters fromsettling in the spaces between the arms while the process of washingymay be in the act of being carried on.

My improvement in the washing-machine consists in dispensing with thelower perforated disk used in Ransoms washing-machine and supporting thespindle by the radial arms or rubbers C, and arranging in each of themthe passages, as described 5 also,in combining and arranging with thetub and the spindle and its series of supporting-arms the intermediateseries of perforated cleat-s, as described.

My invention not only materiallysimplifies and cheapens the machine,butcauses it to operate to better advantage, and prevents it from becomingclogged with dirt or deposits made between the lower rubbers.

The mechanism, as described, as fixed to the tub and used with thedasher, may be applied to any tub of sufficient size. A

In operating with it after the tub may have been charged with clothesand a washin gliquid, We have only to lay hold of and impart to thedasher a reciprocating rotary movement.

I make no claim tothe subject of the patent hereinbefore mentioned, orto the machine described in such patent.

I do not employ in my machine, as in Ransoms machine, a secondperforated disk to rest on the bottom of the tub and give support to aseries of rubbers or arms disposed on suoli disk. By dispensing withsuch, and fastening the rubbers directly to the spindle, I gain animportant advantage, as I not only greatly simplify the construction ofthe machine, but am enabled Vmore readily to cleanse the dirt from thebottom of the tub.

I therefore claim- The combination of the radial arms C, the cleats f,and the passages g h, all arranged as described, with the spindle B andwith the dasher A, having perforations through its disk, and rubbers aapplied to such disk, as set forth.

RUSSELL S. MORSE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. lt. SNOW.

